Sentences with phrase «by conventional sources»

What these critics fail to recognize is that the contribution made by conventional sources of electricity generation represent a historical legacy — they do not reflect modern investments in the electricity grid.

Revolving Loan Funds are a popular economic development tool, delivering high risk capital to projects that can not be financed by conventional sources.

Not exact matches

Bob Johnson, director of photovoltaics at research firm Strategies Unlimited, in Mountain View, Calif., says PV cells may drop below their current price by 30 % or more by 2010, even without big technological advances, making the cost of solar energy competitive with conventional sources.

I'm making some reasonable money from blogging, but it's still dwarfed by my income from other sources, let alone what I might have made if I'd started a conventional business in 2008.

The two most common are: (1) home loans backed 100 percent by the government through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that include both an upfront and annual mortgage insurance premium (MIP); and (2) conventional loans, which are typically backed at least in part by private sources of capital, such as private MI.

The chart on the right shows the spike - up in the number of conventional mortgages issued by Fannie and Freddie once the DTI was raised (source: Corelogic w / my edits).

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Conventional white rice is not considered a source of toxins or a significant source of anti-nutritional factors, nor is it considered by allergists to be a common allergenic food, and the genetic modification resulting in GR2E Golden Rice has not altered this safety profile.

Algae production consumes more energy, has higher greenhouse gas emissions and uses more water than other biofuel sources, like corn, switch grass and canola, Clarens and his colleagues found by using a statistical model to compare growth data of algae with conventional crops.

Some LEDs under development require 10 times less electricity than an equivalent conventional light bulb and less than half the electricity required by a fluorescent light source.

When the gravitational wave event GW170817 was detected, astronomers rushed to search for the source using conventional telescopes (see the Introduction by Smith).

Using data collected primarily by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, scientists have compared the environmental impacts of conventional meat production with those of alternative sources of food.

In fact, the importance of consuming therapeutic doses of healthy omega - 3 fats from dietary sources and supplements is widely recognized by both conventional and alternative medicine.

Mountain Rose Herbs is proud to have converted to 100 % renewable energy by transferring its conventional electrical power usage to renewable energy sources, credits, and development.

While the performance of conventional projector mercury lamps falls off visibly with increasing age (around 2000 hours by 50 %), the Hybrid Light Source maintains consistent brightness and superior colour.

Curriculum that has been used by conventional schools place the teachers position as the only source of knowledge for the students.

The two most common are: (1) home loans backed 100 percent by the government through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that include both an upfront and annual mortgage insurance premium (MIP); and (2) conventional loans, which are typically backed at least in part by private sources of capital, such as private MI.

Government Loans v. Conventional Loans Mortgages may be identified by the source of their funding.

Instead, try to convert your payday loans to a conventional loan by borrowing the funds from a conventional lender or the above - mentioned sources of funds.

2011) of the present atmospheric methane burden by 2100, or a 50 % increase fifty years primarily due to increase emissions from marshlands and conventional anthropogenic sources.

Provided investment in solar increases ($ 26 - 33 billion per year is required) the US could be generating 10 % of its electricity from solar power by 2025, and doing it at a lower cost than from conventional fuel sources.

The United States faces a vexing challenge in switching from conventional to clean sources to generate electricity: How do we replace fossil fuel when natural gas costs $ 4 per million BTU and demand for electricity is expected to increase by over 20 % by 2035?

Wind and conventional sources should not be on the same table, but they have been (defended only by a small footnote).

In a statement announcing the award, the AEE recognised efforts by the IEA and Dr Birol at highlighting the fact that renewables are no longer a niche and should now be considered a conventional source of energy.

J&D project that when accounting for the costs associated with air pollution and climate change, all the WWS technologies they consider will be cheaper than conventional energy sources (including coal) by 2020 or 2030, and in fact onshore wind is already cheaper.

One such period of shortage was in the second half of January when most of the electricity was produced by conventional power sources — lignite, coal, natural gas, and nuclear.

As for costs, J&D project that when accounting for the costs associated with air pollution and climate change, all the WWS technologies they consider will be cheaper than conventional energy sources (including coal) by 2020 or 2030, and in fact onshore wind is already cheaper.

Over the last decade, the decline in U.S. conventional natural gas production has been offset by turning to more unconventional sources, such as coalbed methane, tight sandstones, and gas shales.

Such electricity is almost always higher in cost (and lower in value) than electricity produced by existing conventional energy sources.

The environmental benefits include the greenhouse gases avoided by generating electricity from renewable sources rather than conventional fuels.

By then, electricity from solar will be much more competitive against electricity from conventional sources, and biofuel will be a non-negligible fraction of the fuel used by the international airline industry (maybe), Iowa and Texas will have perhaps 3 times as many wind turbines as now — who knows, maybe there will be new watershed control projects completed or under construction in Thailand, the Mekong River, Queensland and uppeBy then, electricity from solar will be much more competitive against electricity from conventional sources, and biofuel will be a non-negligible fraction of the fuel used by the international airline industry (maybe), Iowa and Texas will have perhaps 3 times as many wind turbines as now — who knows, maybe there will be new watershed control projects completed or under construction in Thailand, the Mekong River, Queensland and uppeby the international airline industry (maybe), Iowa and Texas will have perhaps 3 times as many wind turbines as now — who knows, maybe there will be new watershed control projects completed or under construction in Thailand, the Mekong River, Queensland and upper.

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«Since intermittent renewables by definition can not provide a reliable supply of electricity, they must be backed up by conventional fuel sources such as coal, gas, hydro or nuclear.»

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STT is happy to go all out and say that in Australia wind power requires 100 % of its capacity to be backed up 100 % of the time by conventional generation sources.

An examination of the data from: i) measurements of the fractionation of CO2 by way of Carbon - 12 and Carbon - 13 isotopes; ii) the seasonal variations of the concentration of CO2 in the Northern Hemisphere; and iii) the time delay between Northern and Southern Hemisphere variations in CO2, raises questions about the conventional explanation of the source of increased atmospheric CO2.

The added costs imposed by intermittent energy sources like wind energy include the displacement of lower cost generation (e.g., natural gas), requirement of dispatchable backup generation, reduced capacity factors for conventional generation, increased electric price volatility, and decreased system efficiency.

Ecotricity began life in 1995, born of the realisation that the conventional way of making electricity, by burning fossil fuels, was the biggest single source of climate change.

While natural gas has a slight environmental benefit relative to the use of conventional liquid fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, the environmental performance of natural gas can be greatly improved by procurement from renewable sources.

The SAI's goal is to reduce the cost of solar energy systems to make them competitive with conventional U.S. electricity sources by 2015.